Father, we come to you this morning as people who need to be redeemed. We need to be made whole. We confess that we need You to heal us for we cannot heal ourselves.
We confess our wandering hearts. We run after acceptance, prestige, wealth, order, pleasure and novelty in a desperate effort to heal our hearts. None of these can redeem us, none of these can make us whole. Yet we are slow to learn. Forgive us we pray.
We confess that we remain fixated on our own failures or the failures of others.
We quickly forget that your grace is infinite. We quickly forget that Jesus came, not to call the righteous, but the unrighteous.
Forgive us, God of mercy. Invade our lives by your Spirit and make us new.
That we may know the joy of abundant life given in Jesus Christ, the risen Lord.
Amen.
